Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate: Or, Hints on the Application of LogicMcElrath and Barker, 1853 - 129 oldal |
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... force the only teacher , and the battle - axe the only argument . A transition has indeed taken place the time , and means , and ends are changed - but not the relative posi- tion of men . No more do we struggle for the victory of ...
... force the only teacher , and the battle - axe the only argument . A transition has indeed taken place the time , and means , and ends are changed - but not the relative posi- tion of men . No more do we struggle for the victory of ...
10. oldal
... force added to words , when they are delivered in a neat and fine way , and somewhat out of the ordinary road , common and dull language relishing more of the clown than the gentleman . But herein also affectation must be avoided ; it ...
... force added to words , when they are delivered in a neat and fine way , and somewhat out of the ordinary road , common and dull language relishing more of the clown than the gentleman . But herein also affectation must be avoided ; it ...
14. oldal
... force or momentum is conjointly as the body and the velocity ; therefore , as my voice is feeble , what is wanted in body must be made up in velocity . " This is a mathematical figure of speech , and is more true of Dynamics than Rhe ...
... force or momentum is conjointly as the body and the velocity ; therefore , as my voice is feeble , what is wanted in body must be made up in velocity . " This is a mathematical figure of speech , and is more true of Dynamics than Rhe ...
20. oldal
... force of an inducement . " The argument , " says Emerson , " which has not the power to reach my own practice , I may well doubt will fail to reach yours . I have heard an experienced counsellor say , that he never feared the effect ...
... force of an inducement . " The argument , " says Emerson , " which has not the power to reach my own practice , I may well doubt will fail to reach yours . I have heard an experienced counsellor say , that he never feared the effect ...
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... force of an objec- tion , or the exact place of a doubt , before any explanation was entered upon - in other words , unless some curiosity was excited before it was attempted to be satisfied - the labour of the teacher was lost . When ...
... force of an objec- tion , or the exact place of a doubt , before any explanation was entered upon - in other words , unless some curiosity was excited before it was attempted to be satisfied - the labour of the teacher was lost . When ...
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72. oldal - For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old unpolluted English language, no book which shows so well how rich that language is in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
72. oldal - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of mo're than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say.
89. oldal - Pulpit discourses have insensibly dwindled from speaking to reading ; a practice, of itself, sufficient to stifle every germ of eloquence. It is only by the fresh feelings of the heart, that mankind can be very powerfully affected.
124. oldal - An admonition to the people of England; Wherein are answered, not onely the slaunderous vntruethes, reprochfully vttered by MARTIN the Libeller, but also many other Crimes by some of his broode, objected generally against all Bishops, and the chiefe of the Cleargie, purposely to deface and discredite the present state of the Church.
62. oldal - Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.